Contents in this issue are:
- IFACx in 2025
16 events around the world have been approved for 2025 under the new IFACx labels. - IFAC Portal statistics
The newsletter presents some insightful statistics about IFAC affiliates from the Portal. - President’s Column
Dong-Il “Dan” Cho highlights the benefits of offering all IFAC conference proceedings in diamond open access in the IFAC PapersOnLine yearly volumes. In this context, he briefly summarizes the discussion around the from now on strict limit of 4-to-6 pages per paper. - Introducing IFAC AMOs: Lebanon
IFAC Associated Member Organizations (AMOs) are a way for countries/regions who previously have not been able to be part of IFAC’s National Member Organizations (NMOs) to participate fully in the IFAC community. In this newsletter, the Lebanese IFAC Chapter is presented. - Distinguished Lecturer Report
As part of the IFAC Distinguished Lecturer Program, Geoff Chase from the University of Canterbury (NZ) gave the opening plenary session at the 8th IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES 2024) in George Town, Penang (MY). - IFAC Distinguished Lecturers
One more IFAC Distinguished Lecturer (Fei-Yue Wang) is presented with short biography, research interest, and lecture topics. - IFAC Activity Fund India Report
The Graduate School on Advanced Sliding Mode Control (ASMC), supported by the IFAC Activity Fund, was held at the beautiful campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur (IN) in December 2024. - IFAC Technical Lecture in Vienna
On April 10th 2025, Dimitri Peaucelle (FR, LAAS) will give an IFAC Technical Lecture on “Descriptor System Modeling for Robustness in Control” at TU Wien, Vienna (AT). - Calendar of upcoming IFAC Conferences